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title: On the night in question, shortly after dark, Sawney shouldered his… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the night in question, shortly after dark, Sawney shouldered his well-filled bag and set out for his wife’s house. Who acts: Sawney. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 66

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On the night in question, shortly after dark, Sawney shouldered his well-filled bag and set out for his wife’s house.

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**Who acts:** Sawney · **What happens:** shoulder, fill, set out · **To what, where:** filled bag

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sawney), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:13:66
# text = On the night in question, shortly after dark, Sawney shouldered his well-filled bag and set out for his wife’s house.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Sawney	Sawney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoulder** | past | Sawney | Sawney's filled bag |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **set out** | past | Sawney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Sawney's wife's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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